In a month that holds the anniversaries of the first adding machine and the tentative birth of the Internet, October is also when the first all-electronic calculations were performed on an experimental computer.

Brown notes that one by-product of the mechanical adding machine was that large numbers of salaried men employed for their ability to tally four-digit numbers in their heads lost their jobs to lower-paid workers--primarily women--equipped with adding machines.

When they started out, the founding partners decided to invest in art to give their office an upscale contemporary look and distinguish it from old-style CPA offices awash in work papers, adding machine tapes and boardroom portraits.

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